Nicole's father, Jim Barr, took Nicole to take the test with the hunch that she would likely be accepted into Mensa.

“I was expecting her to do well. I knew she had a quick mind for working out problems and puzzles,” Jim told Yahoo. “I didn’t want to put any pressure on her, so we went for the fun of it. I had the idea in my mind that she would get into Mensa, but when I got the results back, I thought, ‘Wow that’s a high score!’ It wasn’t until later that I learned it was the top score possible on that test.”

The prestigious society confirmed Nicole's impressive IQ score.

“Nicole’s IQ puts her comfortably within the top 1% of the population,” a spokesman for Mensa told the Western Daily Press. “Only children can get a score higher than 161, because that is the maximum IQ score for an adult. The test is age adjusted for children. While a score of 162 isn’t exactly unknown, it is still quite rare.”

Nicole has theatrical aspirations and acts in her free time, but hopes to eventually go into the medical field.

"She's a hard-working child. She stays after school for homework club and never misses a day," Nicole's mother Dolly Buckland told The Mirror. "From a young age she's been picking out mistakes in books and magazines. She's a happy, fun-loving girl who is always asking for extra homework... She's determined to finish school and go to college and university to be a paediatrician."

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